node-md-meta-cataloger

Easily generate a JSON array of markdown files and their inline metadata.

Installation

npm install --save node-md-meta-cataloger

How to Use

CLI Tool

node-md-meta-cataloger -i <dir> -o <path>

node-md-meta-cataloger -i /path/to/folder -o /another/path/catalog.json

node-md-meta-cataloger --help

Option	Short Flag	Required	Description
--input <dir>	-i	true	input directory path
--output <dir>	-o	true	output path of JSON result
--delete-filename-ext	-d	false	remove ".md" from filenames in result
--config	-c	false	path to .js config file
--version	-v	false	output the version number
--help	-h	false	output usage information

Config File (--config)

• Using the --config option you can specify a path to a JS config file (an ES module) that should return a default object exported with "camelCased" versions of the existing CLI options (plus any extra).
• If an option exists in both the config file and as a CLI option, then the CLI option will receive priority.

Option	Type	Required	Description
input	String	true	input directory path
output	String	true	output path of JSON result
normalize	Function	false	receives results as param, returned object is new result
sort	Function	false	function for sort
deleteFilenameExt	Boolean	false	remove ".md" from filenames in result if true

Node Module

readMarkdown(path : String) : array or object

Path parameter may reference a markdown file or folder containing markdown files.

1. If passed a path to a folder, it returns an array of objects containing all markdown file content and their associated metadata.
2. If passed a path to a file, it return an object containing the markdown content and its metadata.

import {readMarkdown} from 'node-md-meta-cataloger';

let result = readMarkdown('path/to/folder');

Example value of result above:

[
    {
        content: '<p>markdown content</p>',
        filename: 'example.md',
        filepath: 'path/to/folder/example.md',
        metadata: {
            title: 'Title',
            author: 'Joshua',
        },
    },
];